This week’s Manx Independent reports on how people in the island reached out to help visitors stranded here when the ferry could not sail because of the weather on Tuesday.

One of our reporters and a photographer caught up with people affected.

We’ve also got reports on entertainment during the festival, the Ramsey Sprint and the funfair plus all the action on the roads.

Also this week:

An escort agency has been set up in the island

A beer company organised for the wardens of the Calf of Man to go to the UEFA final

Members of a charity are taking on a challenge to go without using single-use plastics this month

Ramsey Town Commissioners are to license advertising A-boards in the town while Douglas has banned them

A 24-year-old man from St John’s who refused to take a breathalyser test has been jailed

An exclusive - and strange - interview with one of the Purple Helmets

Details of the Southern Agricultural Show

The return of the farmers’ market to Douglas

The Army Reserves wants more people to join them

A preview of the Dark Horse Music and Arts Festival

Plus your letters, lots of community news, a look forward to the weekend’s sport, pictures from the past, a seven-day television guide and the Isle of Man’s What’s On guide.

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